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I hope people do not much from this study done in a single IT Service company based in India. One critically important thing to remember is they are "Outlay bas

by geodel 5y ago

I hope people do not much from this study done in a single IT Service company based in India. One critically important thing to remember is they are "Outlay based" instead of "Outcome based". So things measured are hours billed, time-sheets filled and reports generated. What work got done and was it even half useful to client is of secondary importance at these companies. I interviewed few years back so thing they ask it if person is married or have kids because they are likely to take more vacations. I wish they actually detailed the company name. Because if they did and my guess is correct this company is getting hammered as J2EE/.net support model is collapsing. There were some very large layoffs in last few year even before Covid.

reportingsjr 5y ago
This study matches what I've heard from other companies, for what it's worth. About a month ago I discussed productivity with someone at one of the large financial companies. They do pretty heavy tracking of employee productivity and noted a pretty significant decrease since everyone's gone WFH. I don't think it's some other factor that caused this decrease for the company in the study. I'm pretty sure it's consistent across the board. I voiced this a month or two ago in another thread about WFH, and warned people not to go off of anecdotal productivity claims (which is mostly where I've been seeing the "working from home is significantly better for everything") and got downvoted in to oblivion.
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- osigurdson 5y ago
  If a company seriously believes that developer productivity can be accurately tracked, why not directly tie compensation to it? It really shouldn't matter at all where work happens in this case. On the other hand, if they only believe that productivity can only be accurately measured in secret then the "trackers" have some explaining to do in terms of the actual value they are adding to the organization.

by geodel 5y ago

reportingsjr 5y ago

This study matches what I've heard from other companies, for what it's worth. About a month ago I discussed productivity with someone at one of the large financial companies. They do pretty heavy tracking of employee productivity and noted a pretty significant decrease since everyone's gone WFH. I don't think it's some other factor that caused this decrease for the company in the study. I'm pretty sure it's consistent across the board. I voiced this a month or two ago in another thread about WFH, and warned people not to go off of anecdotal productivity claims (which is mostly where I've been seeing the "working from home is significantly better for everything") and got downvoted in to oblivion.

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osigurdson 5y ago
If a company seriously believes that developer productivity can be accurately tracked, why not directly tie compensation to it? It really shouldn't matter at all where work happens in this case. On the other hand, if they only believe that productivity can only be accurately measured in secret then the "trackers" have some explaining to do in terms of the actual value they are adding to the organization.